Note
(a) Dow Jones & Company inc was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
(b) The Dow Chemical Co "was founded in 1897 by Canadian-born chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who invented a new method of extracting the bromine that was trapped underground in brine at Midland, Michigan" where it is still headquartered. Wiki
(3) Noah Buhayar, The CEOs' Favorite Cliché. http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... the-laser-treatment
("The phrase 'laser-focused' appeared in more than 250 transcripts of earnings calls and investor events this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, on pace to eclipse the 287 in all of 2012")
window of print: 5,800 Horejsi’s peak holding of Berkshire shares
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: When his business stalled, he began buying Berkshire shares
(b) The Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surname is “from Yiddish teytlboym ‘date palm’ (from Middle High German tahtel ‘date’ + boum ‘tree’).”
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Athens turns to online auctions to help it meet debt reduction goals
(b) Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) is a state-owned company. See
The Fund. HRADF, undated http://www.hradf.com/en/the-fund
(“The Fund is a ‘societe anonyme,’ of which Hellenic Republic is the sole shareholder with a share capital of €30 million. The Fund is not a public entity and is governed by private law. The assets transferred to it by the State do not form part of its share capital”作者: choi 时间: 9-23-2013 15:58
(6) Ladka Bauerova, A Piano Maker’s Bohemian Rhapsody. http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... na-sales-to-survive
“Garment manufacturing accounted for 80 percent of Haiti’s exports and about 10 percent of its gross domestic product in 2010, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
“US trade laws waive duties on much of the clothing imported from the Caribbean nation. Richard Coles, who has spent the past 15 years running his family’s 3,000-employee textile operation in Haiti, calls much of the local apparel industry ‘archaic.’ 作者: choi 时间: 9-23-2013 15:59
(8) Susan Berfield, Dirty Honey; Uncovering the largest food fraud in us History. http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... u-dot-s-dot-history
My comment This is one of the three feature stories in the issue. Yes, China is involved (that is a selling point nowadays). But the story is interesting by and of itself.
My comment:
(a) I have not heard of the author or his books, but this report is funny.
(b) copywriter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copywriter
(c) JWT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWT
(d) Ray Charles had to check into McLean
(i) Ray Charles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles
(ii) Founded in 1811 and named in honor of one of its earliest benefactors, John McLean, the psychiatric hospital, McLean Hospital, is one of many Harvard teaching Hospitals.